[His pen stalls on this, and it takes him a bit longer to process what he's been told. However, he manages to at least write down the information before going into full question mode.]

Can you clarify on the, um, Gold Experience thing? I wasn't aware he could do something like...that. That's very interesting.

[Almost immediately, he backtracks, sitting up a little straighter out of some kind of nagging anxiety.]

If you don't mind, I mean. Um. I could see how that could bring up traumatic memories?